(02 May 2018, 5:01 am)Dan Seems bizarre in this day and age, when bus operators' back-office systems are so reliant on buses being allocated fleet numbers, that buses still manage to go without having one!
I wonder if they have one for internal purposes, even if not shown on the bus? For revenue analysis, for complaint procedures, for fuel usage analysis, for monitoring AVL data... In any vehicle trials, the latter two are obviously quite important.
I think that because it won't actually see the fuel line it hasn't been given one, tends to be one of the reasons to give it one. The allocation sheets just say 'electric' and the tickets say '1'. 001 is what was was initially thrown about when it arrived, and I've been digging as I was sure there would be an 800** number somewhere - but nope!
